Ricardo Viana Vargas is a specialist in project management and strategy implementation. Over the past 20 years, he has been responsible for more than 80 major transformation projects in several countries, covering an investment portfolio of over 20 billion USD.
He is currently the Executive Director of the Brightline Initiative™, a coalition of leading global organizations from business, government and not for profit sectors, dedicated to providing a knowledge and networking platform that delivers insights and solutions to successfully bridge the gap between strategy development and strategy implementation.
Ricardo is co-founder and managing partner of PMOtto.ai, a cutting-edge virtual assistant that aims to revolutionize how users manage their project and initiatives and interact with project management software by using chatbots, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
From 2012 to 2016, Ricardo Global Director of the Infrastructure and Project Management Group with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
Vargas has written fifteen books on the subject of project management, and also host one of the most relevant podcasts in the field, the 5 Minutes PM Podcast, with more than 4 million views.
A Macrosolutions foi fundada por Ricardo Vargas em 1999. Seu objetivo inicial era administrar os direitos autorais e royalties recebidos por publicações e produtos em gerenciamento de projetos. Com o passado do tempo, a empresa passou também a coordenar os treinamentos e palestras do professor Ricardo Vargas.
Em 2006, ela se tornou uma empresa de consultoria na área de projetos, com atuação internacional nas áreas petróleo, energia, infraestrutura, telecomunicações, informática e finanças.
PMOtto is a cutting-edge virtual assistant that aims to revolutionize how users manage their project and initiatives and interact with project management software. Users can communicate with Otto using natural language which is converted into actions within their project management software.
PMOtto uses revolutionary algorithms and machine learning to provide its users with recommendations based on similar projects and available information.